Laser Dynamics Modelling and Simulation: An Application of Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel Cellular Automata

This chapter reviews the application of a biologically inspired heuristic technique - Cellular Automata (CA) - for developing high performance simulations of a well known complex system: the laser.

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